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University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook
Initial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’
UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …
Netflix Series "Connected," featuring Jen Golbeck
Jen Golbeck discusses a groundbreaking discovery in an episode of Netflix's new series, Connected.
Confidence in Institutions in a Time of Mistrust
UMD iSchool faculty discuss having confidence in government and institutions despite growing mistrust caused by the Covid-19 pandemic …
Mic: The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse, featuring Jen Golbeck
Recent Twitter hacks demonstrate how misusage of the platform can be detrimental depending on the goals and timing of the attackers. …
Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing
Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …
